Communication Systems Manager

2 weeks ago

Ottawa, Canada Thales Full time

Location: Ottawa 1 Chrysalis, Canada

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

For decades, Ottawa has been a global technology leader. Today, Canada’s capital holds one of the brightest and most diverse technological ecosystems in North America. Voted as Canada’s best place to live 2017 by Maclean's, Ottawa offers a low cost of living with a high quality of life. The Thales Ottawa office has been a major supplier and long-term trusted partner to DND, enabling the Canadian Armed Forces and the Canadian Coast Guard to achieve mission success.

**Position Summary**

The Communication System Manager will be part of the Engineering department located in Ottawa, Canada and will provide communication system engineering support throughout the project execution cycle from specification and design, through development, integration, test and acceptance to integrate communication, navigation, sensor, and mission systems on commercial and military platforms.

**Key Responsibilities**
***Discipline Management**

**The Communication System Manager organizes Communication Systems discipline and skills such as**:

- **Builds the Strategic Workforce planning**:

- **Animates the discipline by bringing expertise and relying on recognized referents within Thales**:

- **Manages business continuity**:

- **Capitalizes and shares skills in an environment of employee mobility**:

- **Recruits future talent and manages career plans / employee mobility in a short/medium/long term vision**:

- **Supports the bid and projects by estimating costs and monitor the actuals and forecast costs against the baseline budget**

**Technical**

**The Communication System Manager also supports projects by bringing expertise in the communication domain and taking part to the overall System Engineering design as delineated below**:

- **Requirements elicitation and decomposition towards subsystem elements including subcontracted items;**:

- **Requirements derivation and development for subsystem elements;**:

- **Technical subcontract management including management of work scope and compliance of the (subcontractor) supplied solution;**:

- **Development of the preliminary and detailed designs for system and subsystem elements;**:

- **Production of technical documentation to capture the system and subsystem designs including the architecture, interfaces and installation elements;**:

- **Support the development of verification and validation artifacts including plans and procedures;**:

- **Implementation and integration of the system and subsystem designs; and**:

- **Resolution of technical issues arising during the implementation, integration and testing of the system and subsystem elements**

**People Management**
- **Provides oversight and direction to a team of employees within the department in accordance with the organization’s policies and procedures.**:

- **Coach, mentor, and develop staff **, including overseeing new employee onboarding and **providing career development planning **and opportunities.**:

- **Leads employees to meet the organization's expectations for productivity, quality, continuous improvement, and goal accomplishment.**:

- **Fosters a spirit of teamwork and unity among department members that allows for cohesiveness, support, and working effectively together to enable each employee and the department to succeed.**:

- **Works with Human Resources staff to recruit, interview, select, hire, and employ an appropriate number of employees.**

**Key Requirements**
- **Education: Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent education with relevant experience.**:

- **Experience: 7+ years experience in a Systems engineering environment and in managing high performing teams**:

- **Technical/Specialized Knowledge: at least 5 years of professional experience in the design and integration of complex communication systems in the commercial and/or military domains.**:

- **Certifications: P.Eng. or CET or eligible to obtain P.Eng or CET**:

- **Language: English required**:

- **Ability to understand key stakes, context, customer's needs and technologies about Communications / Radios including specificities concerning integration/ installation/ deployment.**:

- **Ability to develop and agree project budgets by estimating costs, managing actual and forecast costs against the baseline budget and controlling costs by accurately analysing and managing variances**:

- **Ability to orient solutions and estimations based on capitalized knowledge of the organisation**:

- **Excellent communication (verbal & written) and interpersonal skills required to succeed on multidisciplinary teams**:

- **Ability to implement Lean or Agile prin

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